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Held-to-maturity securities: Held-to-maturity securities states that securities are purchased with an intention of holding it till maturity.
Trading securities: Debt securities which are held with the intention to sell in the short term for profit are called trading securities.
Available-for-sale securities: A debt or equity securities which are purchased with the intention of selling it before its maturity, or selling prior to the longest time period in case if security is without its maturity are known as available-for-sale securities.
(a) To determine: To determine the classification of the portfolio proposed by each will actually have the effect on earnings that each of them says.
Given information: All the information related to A Manufacturing is provided in the question document.
(b) To determine: To determine the unethical ways of proposes. And also determine the stakeholders affected by their proposals.
Given information: All the information related to A Manufacturing is provided in the question document.
(c) To determine: To determine the proposal is ethical or unethical, if an assumption is made that B and N properly classify the entire portfolio into trading, available-for-sale, and held-to-maturity categories. But then each proposes to sell just before year-end the securities with gains or with losses, as the case may be, to accomplish their effect on earnings.
Given information: All the information related to A Manufacturing is provided in the question document.
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